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G. Smoot

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Status of the neutrino telescope AMANDA: Monopoles and WIMPs

2001

The neutrino telescope AMANDA has been set up at the geographical South Pole as first step to a neutrino telescope of the scale of one cubic kilometer, which is the canonical size for a detector sensitive to neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) and Topological Defects (TD). The location and depth in which the detector is installed is given by the requirement to detect neutrinos by the Cherenkov light produced by their reaction products and to keep the background due to atmospheric muons as small as possible. However, a detector optimized for this purpose is also capable to detect the bright Cherenkov light from relativistic Monopoles and neutrino signals from …

PhysicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaSolar neutrinoDark matterAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsAstronomyAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic AstrophysicsAstrophysicsSolar neutrino problemNeutrino detectorMeasurements of neutrino speedHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoNeutrino astronomyCherenkov radiation
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The AMANDA neutrino detector - Status report

2000

Abstract The first stage of the AMANDA High Energy Neutrino Detector at the south Pole, the 302 PMT array AMANDA-B10, is taking data since 1997. We describe results on atmospheric neutrinos, limits on indirect WIMP detection, seasonal muon flux variation, relativistic monopole flux limits, a search for gravitational collapse neutrinos, and a depth scan of the optical ice properties. The next stage 19-string detector AMANDA-II with ∼650 PMTs will be completed in spring 2000.

PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaDetectorCosmic rayAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsParticle detectorMassless particleWIMPNeutrino detectorHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoLeptonNuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
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